Unless you are still supporting old versions of perl, please, try to lay this old habit to rest.

Your post gives the impression that it's somehow wrong to be explicit, because Perl already does so automatically. What's next, a plea to not use length ($_), because Perl will fill in the $_? A plea to not close a filehandle because Perl will close it for you? A plea to not use write an explicit return if the last line of a sub is return EXPR;?

I'm all for actively discouraging styles or idioms that are wrong, that easily lead to mistakes, or that are misleading. But your posts don't give more reasons than "it was needed way back then, but it no longer is". But just because it's no longer needed, it's not wrong, doesn't easily lead to mistakes (quite the opposite) nor is it misleading.

Abigail

In reply to Re: To Kill a Meme: while(defined($line = <>)) by Abigail-II
in thread To Kill a Meme: while(defined($line = <>)) by sauoq

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